"Your status rose gradually," Yan Funing said, looking at the Shi Dong and Shi Liang brothers. "Your uncle's behavior makes you even more resentful. After all, it was your parents' achievements that brought the Shi family such glory. In the end, you lost your parents, and the title that originally belonged to your father fell into your uncle's hands. How can you not be angry?"
Shi Dong shouted, "Nonsense! When my mother married into our family, I had just learned to walk, and my second brother was still a baby. How could we, at such young ages, have known what hatred was?"
"How you understand hatred is beyond my comprehension," Yan Funing said calmly. "Your sons are still young, not much older than you were back then. But they've long understood that if they have another brother, he'll fight with them for their property."
"How can they have such thoughts at such a young age? Isn't it because of your words and deeds as a father?" Yan Funing asked back.
The Shi family's eldest young lady's wife immediately spoke out: "Princess Rui, by saying this, are you openly scolding us as parents for not raising our children well?"
"I didn't curse. I told the truth." Yan Funing looked around. "Since the two young masters are not here right now, you can ask them to come out and ask them. Of course, when you brought them here, you may have taught them how to talk, but it doesn't matter. My nephew can serve as a witness."
At that time, the two young masters of the Shi family had a conversation with Yuanlang.
Lang Ge'er has a very good memory, so it should be no problem for him to testify.
Hearing this, Long Chi'an ordered Ying Wu and Ying Qi, "Go and invite my two good nephews."
Shadow Five and Shadow Seven clasped their fists and left.
"Brother, don't listen to this woman's nonsense!" Shi Dong said anxiously, "Think about it, when mother married into our family, my brother and I were still young, and you were nowhere to be found. How could we harm you? And how could we harm you?"
"How to harm him is something we will talk about later. The most urgent thing is for us to find out the motive." Yan Funing smiled faintly.
Soon, Ying Wu and Ying Qi appeared in the main hall with two young masters.
The one wearing a blue robe is slightly taller, and the other one wearing a green robe is slightly shorter.
"I recognize you." The young man in blue robe pointed at Yan Funing and said, "You are the aunt of the young master of the Yuan family."
Yan Funing nodded: "I am."
"Young Master said you wanted to give him a sister?"
"Who do you think is better, a brother or a sister?"
"My brothers and sisters are all well."
Shi Dong immediately spoke up: "Listen, my child is very kind-hearted."
"Don't be anxious, young master." Yan Funing asked the young master in blue robe, "Brother Lang still wants his parents to help him give birth to a brother or sister."
"He mentioned this to us, and we told him that if he had a younger sister, it would be fine. His uncle's family would only have to provide a dowry in the future. But if he had a younger brother, he would compete with him for property, which would not be good." The young master in blue robe said seriously, turning to look at his parents, "Dad, Mom, do you think I'm right?"
The eldest lady of the Shi family frowned at him: "No, it should be that both the younger brothers and sisters are fine."
"It's true that other people's brothers and sisters are all well, but ours is not like that." The young master in blue robe raised his voice, "Dad and Mom, you often say at night that this mansion should belong to our family, but now it has been occupied by others..."
Before he could finish his words, the eldest lady of the Shi family covered his mouth.
"Brother is right." The young man in green robes agreed, "My father also said that the Marquis should have been our grandfather!"
The word "grandfather" made Shi Yu's face turn pale.
The eldest brother is the biological grandfather of the two little guys in front of him, and he is just their great-uncle.
He and the eldest princess raised the Dongliang brothers as their own sons, but now it seems they have raised a pair of ungrateful people.
"You're not our biological grandmother either."
The young man in green robe suddenly pointed at Long Shuyun.
"Mom, the child is outspoken, please don't get angry."
The wife of the second young master of the Shi family quickly pulled her son over and slapped him on the butt.
The young man in green robe burst into tears: "I'm telling the truth. Do I get beaten for telling the truth? This is clearly what my parents told me!"
The wife of the second young master of the Shi family had no choice but to hit him again, a little harder.
"Enough!" Long Shuyun shouted, "Children don't lie." She looked at Dongliang and his brothers with a wry smile, "You keep calling me mother, but in your hearts you never consider me your own mother."
The hall fell silent.
After a long moment, Shi Liang sneered, "Even if we taught our children wrongly, Princess Rui, how could we, who were so young at the time, harm others?"
Yan Funing said, "When the eldest princess married into the Shi family, you really didn't have the ability to harm anyone. After all, the second young master was still a baby at the time."
"A few years later, the two began to remember things and understood the difference between their biological mother and their adoptive mother."
"Until your adoptive mother became pregnant, you felt a sense of crisis, thinking that your love would be taken away by her biological son. So you wanted her to lose the child, hoping that she would continue to treat you as her own sons."
"As for how to harm others, it's difficult for you to get poison at such a young age, but there is a chance when you go to the Shi Family Cemetery."
"Old Master Shi once said that the family tree records the reason why the Shi and Yan families became friends, and also records the illness suffered by the Shi family's ancestor, Prince Youchi."
"You two probably came across the family tree records by chance, and when you went to the cemetery, you deliberately dug something out..."
"Nonsense!" Shi Dong slammed the table.
Shi Liang slammed the teacup in his hand onto the table. "Nonsense! Even if you are the princess, you can't make such malicious assumptions about us!"
Fu Ciyi said calmly, "I have already sent the imperial physician to your Shi family mausoleum to investigate. The contents are indeed poisonous. Once poisoned, the body will become weak. Chi An has been like this since birth, so it is very likely that he was poisoned while still in his aunt's womb. Don't you understand what is going on?"
"The poison invades the lungs, so I often cough." Yan Funing added.
Long Shuyun grabbed the teacup in front of him and threw it at the Dongliang brothers, shattering it. "I've treated you well, yet you dare to harm me and Chi An like this!"
Shi Dong admitted, "Mom, we brothers admit that you've been very good to us. Later, when you became pregnant with Chi An, you looked like a loving mother that we had never seen before. Only then did we realize that our biological mother was different from you, but we brothers still love you and hope that you will continue to treat us as your children!"
Shi Liang also said, "But at that time, the nurse said behind our backs that the princess was full of love and care in order to atone for her sins."
Shi Dong continued, "She even said that our biological parents' deaths were probably related to you, because you were going to marry into the Shi family. You are a princess, and your uncle's status is not worthy of you. Only if your uncle has a title, and a high title, can he successfully marry you."
"We were confused at that time!"
The two brothers knelt down, walked to Long Shuyun on both knees, and kowtowed while crying.
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